Ella Langley Promises True-To-Country CMA Awards Performance Of ‘Choosin’ Texas’ [Exclusive]

Ella Langley is preparing to take the stage at the upcoming CMA Awards to perform her latest single, “Choosin’ Texas.” Ahead of the highly-anticipated event, she hinted at what fans can expect from her time on stage.

The songstress has built a reputation for showcasing her powerful music through high-energy performances that put her signature country sound on full display. While speaking with Country Now backstage of the CMA Awards, she revealed that this special performance will be no different.

While she kept most of the details under wraps, she promised it would be “country” through and through.

“It’s true to the song. I mean, it’s two stepping. Country boys, I love ‘em,” she teased.

The highly anticipated track, co-written by Langley alongside Miranda Lambert, Luke Dick, and Joybeth Taylor, finds the award-winning artist exploring the bittersweet moment she discovers her love interest has fallen for her and Tennessee, only to realize his heart actually still belongs to Texas and someone else.

Fans are likely very eager to see the track come to life live at the CMA Awards, as it’s expected to capture all the emotion and storytelling of the song that has been stirring up so much buzz already.

When asked what she put in the song to make listeners fall in love with it so fast, she joked, “that’s a special sauce I can’t tell everybody about.”

This is slated to be a major night for Ella Langley. Along with her performance, she’s heading into the event tied as the most nominated alongside Megan Moroney and Lainey Wilson, each racking up six nods this year. Langley is up for an award in the categories of Single of the Year (“you look like you love me”), Song of the Year (“you look like you love me”), Female Vocalist of the Year, Musical Event of the Year (“Don’t Mind If I Do”), Music Video of the Year (“you look like you love me”), and New Artist of the Year.

Reflecting on this accomplishment, she noted that it’s truly “nuts” to think about the fact that she’s come this far in her career and is now getting to see her years of hard work and dedication be recognized in front of her peers.

“People will keep asking me this question and it’s just like, yeah, I think at some point this job, so many cool things happen to you in a row and you’re just on a cloud nine type of thing. So usually, stuff like that sinks in a couple days after it happens.”

This performance will follow Ella Langley’s sold-out, two-night run at Nashville’s iconic Ryman Auditorium to wrap up her Still Hungover Tour. Both nights were packed with star-studded surprise guests including ERNEST, Jo Dee Messina, Gretchen Wilson, HARDY, Morgan Wallen and more.

“Jo Dee Messina and Gretchen Wilson both have texted me before and said just the most encouraging things and we’ve done ‘Here For The Party’ for forever so I knew I wanted to see if Gretchen could do it. And then Jo Dee Messina is, I did this cover of ‘A Lesson In Leavin’ just randomly and I see it all the time. So I was like, that would be so sick. And she ended up texting me saying, ‘congrats on the Ryman.’ I’m like, ‘well, do you want to come and sing?’”

“I don’t think he gets to go out and see shows very often,” Langley said of Wallen. “And then I was like, you want to do ‘Cover Me Up’?”

This epic Ryman show marked the end of one chapter and the beginning of another. “Choosin’ Texas” set the tone for the next era which Langley described as being “fun,” “groovy” and “more mature.”

“It’s womanly, sexy. It’s windows down,” she shared. “My point for this whole record is when I listen to music, even though I’m a songwriter and I love to write songs, I really listened to the music first. And so a lot of these songs, I really wanted to be able to turn it down and still kind of vibe on the record. And when you’re in the car and you’re talking to your friends, one of those records just put on. But it’s also, if you do love lyrics and you get to learn a lot about me as an artist and as a human being and kind of what got me here.”

The Alabama native will appear on the CMA Awards this Wednesday when the show broadcasts live from Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena. Fans can tune into the event hosted by Lainey Wilson on at 8:00-11:00 PM/ET on ABC. It will also be available next day on Hulu.